English Explanatory Dictionary

linguist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who studies linguistics.
  2. One who studies modern-day linguistics, that is, linguistic science.
  3. A person skilled in languages.
  4. A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.

Pronunciation

/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-linguist.wav

Word forms

linguist linguists

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *denɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.

Synonyms

linguist

Antonyms

nonlinguist

Related words

lingua linguaphile multilingual polyglot prescriptivist scholar philologist linguistics language

Derived words

anthropolinguist bilinguist co-linguist colinguist comparative linguist cryptolinguist cunning linguist Eurolinguist geolinguist linguister linguistic linguistics linguistry metalinguist missionary linguist missionary-linguist monolinguist multilinguist neolinguist neurolinguist nonlinguist polylinguist slanguist trilinguist unilinguist xenolinguist

Translations

Afrikaans: taalkundige Afrikaans: linguis Afrikaans: taalwetenskaplike Albanian: gjuhëtar Albanian: gjuhëtare Southern Altai: лингвист Arabic: لُغَوِيّ Arabic: عَالِم لُغَوِيّ Arabic: لِسَانِيّ Armenian: լեզվաբան Asturian: llingüista Azerbaijani: dilçi Azerbaijani: dilşünas Azerbaijani: linqvist Basque: hizkuntzalari Belarusian: мовазна́вец Belarusian: моваве́д Belarusian: лінгві́ст Belarusian: лінгві́стка Bulgarian: езикове́д Bulgarian: лингви́ст Bulgarian: лингви́стка Catalan: lingüista Cebuano: magdidila Chechen: меттанийн ӏилманча Chinese Mandarin: 語言學家 /语言学家 Chinese Mandarin: 語言學者 /语言学者 Czech: jazykovědec Czech: jazykovědkyně Czech: lingvista Czech: lingvistka Danish: lingvist Danish: sprogforsker Danish: sprogvidenskabsmand Dutch: taalkundige Dutch: linguïst Esperanto: lingvisto Faroese: málfrøðingur Finnish: kielitieteilijä Finnish: kielentutkija Finnish: lingvisti Finnish: lingvistikko French: linguiste Galician: lingüista Georgian: ლინგვისტი Georgian: ენათმეცნიერი German: Sprachwissenschaftler German: Sprachwissenschaftlerin German: Sprachwissenschafter German: Sprachwissenschafterin German: Linguist German: Linguistin German: Sprachforscher German: Sprachforscherin Greek: γλωσσολόγος Greenlandic: oqaasilerisoq Hebrew: בַּלְשָׁן Hindi: भाषाविद Hungarian: nyelvész Hungarian: nyelvtudós Icelandic: málvísindamaður Interlingua: linguista Irish: teangeolaí Italian: linguista Japanese: 言語学者 Kazakh: тіл маманы Kazakh: лингвист Khmer: ភាសាវិទូ Korean: 언어학자 Kyrgyz: лингвист Lao: ນັກພາສາສາດ Lao: ນາຍພາສາ Latvian: valodnieks Latvian: lingvists
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